SCRATCHING OF HORSES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 245, 15 October 1940, Page 10

SCRATCHING OF HORSES.

• 'The business of scratching racehorses has apparently been brought to a fine art. To those'not vereed in the acing game ,t may be explained that to thrf?™ ■ 1160 * to , I >reve "t him from r"" ln i a >- ra , Ce after the P°or, longsuffering public have been led to believe (m their innocence) that lie will be a 'n-frT 'i Wlf <;erlain racehorses whose names hav e recently been on every sportsman 9 lips, and who have been "burninc up the track, had been scratched on the face as many tunes as tliev have been at si 4.t e id V W t th&L h& " r ' >0n, ,'l [ aco on, - v a *««"• siglited U eWiman would be able to recognise them. There m also the question of R V lO san,e ,lorse in two races, ho 8,1 " 10 daj > 0,,e °, ver a<l Stance and the other a sprint. In moet cases the horse involved has been prepared for one race. and the owner has no intention whatsoexer ot starting him in both. Of course the public, as the law stands, is „ ot "dishonoured jn the breach and is not affected by these practices, but all the same one is forced to the conclusion that I'ut rsw ! ln ": t !><• more like human beings from i ? i P ley , n,ust either suffer r°" ,V Ke fnpl,t and caan °t "appearthrough nervous prostration on race daw thvT y ad^ Se their owner s tliat haxe been good scouts and have done their one good deed bv remaining a* acceptors until the eve of the race. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. iJ[ OUnt Edea^-— CD £2 9/i (2)